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n. (context idiomatic English) One or more unpleasant tasks, assignments, or employment duty, especially those of a disreputable or illicit nature.
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Dirty Work may refer to:
Dirty Work ( 1998) is a comedy buddy film starring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, and Traylor Howard and directed by Bob Saget. In the film, long-time friends Mitch (Macdonald) and Sam (Lange) start a revenge-for-hire business, and work to fund heart surgery for Sam's father Pops (Warden). When they take on work for an unscrupulous businessman ( Christopher McDonald), in order to be paid, they create a revenge scheme of their own. Adam Sandler makes a cameo appearance as Satan.
The film was the first starring vehicle for Macdonald and Lange and the first feature film directed by Saget, coming one year after he left his long-running role as host of America's Funniest Home Videos.
Though the film received broadly negative reviews from critics and earned low box office returns, it has become a cult classic. Co-star Artie Lange later became a regular on The Howard Stern Show, where the film was sometimes discussed.
Dirty Work is the Rolling Stones' 18th British and 20th American studio album. It was released on 24 March 1986 on the Rolling Stones label by CBS Records. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album was recorded during a period when relations between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards soured considerably, according to Richards' autobiography Life.
Dirty Work is a 1987 novel by New Zealand author Nigel Cox.
Cox's second novel (after his debut, Waiting for Einstein), Dirty Work is set in Wellington City, New Zealand, in the mid-1980s. The book revolves around the lives of staff and guests in the Happy World, a low-rent hotel, and the conflict between the hotel owner, Hendrick van Eesen ('Hendy'), and his newly hired shift manager, Gina Tully.
The novel won the Bucklands Memorial Literary Prize shortly after its release, and was also optioned for film.
In 2006, the book was re-published by Victoria University Press, based in Wellington.
Dirty Work is a Pre-Code Laurel and Hardy short film classic comedy made in 1933. It was directed by Lloyd French, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by MGM.
Dirty Work (1988) is the debut novel by American Southern author Larry Brown.
Dirty Work is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Tom Walls and starring Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare and Basil Sydney. It was based on Dirty Work, one of the Aldwych Farces, by Ben Travers, which had some of the same cast members.
Dirty Work is the fourth full-length studio album by American pop punk band All Time Low. The album is the band's major label debut and was released on June 7, 2011 by Interscope Records. " I Feel Like Dancin'" was released as the album's first single on April 15, 2011. Frontman Alex Gaskarth felt the album was "more of a pop-rock/ alt-rock album for us. There are definitely elements of pop punk—where we came from. But this album was an effort to develop our sound and hone in on great songwriting rather than conform to the boundaries of a certain genre." Gaskarth penned all the lyrics, and collaborated with musicians on the music. Being a pop punk success, Dirty Work was met with some commercial success, debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in the United States with 45,000 first week sales. It also charted in the top 20 in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. All Time Low toured extensively throughout 2011 and 2012 in support of the album. Dirty Work has sold 107,000 copies in the US to date October 2012.
Dirty Work is an Emmy Award-winning comedy web television series which debuted in 2012 and stars Jamie Clayton, Hank Harris and Mary Lynn Rajskub. The series is produced by Fourth Wall Studios for their proprietary RIDES.TV platform.
Dirty Work is a farce by Ben Travers. It was one of the series of twelve Aldwych farces that ran in uninterrupted succession at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923 to 1933. The play depicts the maladroit but ultimately successful efforts of a shop-walker to outwit a gang of jewel thieves.
The piece opened on 7 March 1932 and ran for 193 performances until 26 August. A film adaptation of the play was made in 1934.
"Dirty Work" is a song by American pop singer Austin Mahone. The song was released in the United States as a digital download on July 1, 2015. It was written and produced by The Monsters and the Strangerz, with additional songwriting from Mahone, Sean Douglas and Talay Riley. It serves as the lead single from his upcoming debut studio album, and is the theme song for Minions.
Usage examples of "dirty work".
I've never in my life done people's dirty work for them--least of all for favours in return.
It seems to me as if the thief came here, peeped in and saw the Cook asleep and went down to the shed to do his dirty work.
Most of them had on their dirty work clothes instead of uniforms, and didn't look nearly as grand as the others, who wore badges of red and gold on the breasts of their black tunics.
Even Nixon's oldest enemies are lying low, leaving the dirty work to hired lawyers and faceless investigators.
I saw Guy heading into more and bigger dirty work, and I couldn't decently go along with him.
I don't understand why he is going (unless it is to do some dirty work for the commies) because the aforementioned Shubert is always propagandizing against the United States, saying how it is run by Wall Street and they are fascists and started the Korean War.